Sensus naturae. Connection with nature in the psychoanalysis’s history.
01:39Sensus naturae. Connection with nature in the psychoanalysis’s history.
Sensus
naturae is spiritual connection between animals and the anima mundi (also known
as Mercurius tor the Holy Spirit). In the pre-scientific world his "sense
of nature" is the reason why
animals can forecast. Examples of these forecasts are ants coming out from the
ground, the dog howling in anticipation of an earthquake or when animal
participating in synchronicity. A well-known example of that is the Jung's
story about a beetle, which got in his cabinet in the therapy time and has look
like scarab.
This story
happened with Jung and one of his patient. It was very hard for him to
work with that patient. One evening,
sitting in the Jung’s office, the patient told him about her last dream. In the
dream the precious elegant jewelry - golden scarab was given to her. After that
dream-story an unusual beetle softly knocked in the window ...
Jung was
surprised to see that some flying insects furiously beating on the outer side
of the window. He opened the flap and caught the intruder. Ater closer
examination it was found that the insect is the closest analogue of the scarab,
which could appear in the local lands! That type of beetle looks exactly like
scarab and known Cetonia aurata. "Here's your golden scarab!" - with
these words Jung gave the woman the insect.
Heinrich
Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (German humanist, doctor, alchemist, natural
philosopher, occultist, astrologer and a lawyer) also recognizes the "glow
of sensus naturae" (literally: "the consciousness of nature "). Dr.
Marie-Louise von Franz (Ph.D., accomplise and closest colleague of Jung) said
that it means to be instinctively or intuitively associated with surrounding
nature. Exactly from those consciousness get insightful or prophetic glow the
four-legged animals, birds and other creatures and that gives them the ability
to anticipate future events. Agrippa borrowed the concept of
"consciousness of nature” (sensus naturae) from William Paris. William
Paris believed that the consciousness of nature (sensus naturae) is a higher
consciousness than the ordinary human forms of perception and he especially stressed
that animals also have it. The doctrine of the consciousness of nature (sensus
naturae) evolved from the earlier ideas of the world soul which is everything.
World soul represent natural forces which are set drive all the phenomena of
life and mind.
That’s
confirmed by the words of Jungian psychologist Barbara Hannak in the article abouy
symbolism of animals: "It is interesting that when I was preparing to that
seminar I got a boor from America. The central theme of that book is forgotten
and discontinued relationship with animals. Allen Boone’s book "The
relationship with all life" can sound too sentimental so it causes
irritation during reading, but it contains a very interesting conclusion that
we can not only communicate with the higher animals, such as dogs or horses,
but we can in a certain way to cooperate with the other forms of life, such as
insects (Boone, 1954). He doesn’t affirm that we can learn animal language, but
he suggests that there is a guiding principle for all forms of life. He calls
it "the Mind of the Universe" or "Invisible basic factor".
Connecting to this level in nature and ourselves we also establish a connection
to all other forms of life and made possible to communicate with them in some
way. Like an example Boone led an anecdote in which he reached the gentlemen's
agreement with the devastating hordes of ants that aggressively invades his
old-fashioned refrigerator and attacked all the food in the house. He spoke to
them a long speech, praising their intelligence, ability to concentrate and
harmonious spirit in the work, and explained that he wouldn’t poison them if
they will retreat. That evening, after weeks of invasions, they went and didn’t
return. Although they continued to penetrate into other houses in that area. That story sounds ridiculous to our rational
ears, but if you look to the behavior of animals in the wild in the sense of an
absolute deep communication, and if we take into account our own irrational
experience of communication on such level with a vital source of knowledge in
nature and in us, then Boone’s story might not be completely nonsense. Animals,
including insects, is much more righteous than us, because they are
consistently doing the will of God and always remain themselves, while we use
the small amount of free will which we got and after that disobey it and
deviate from our own natural way over and over .And respecting the "will of God".
Sources: Gary
Seaman "Individuation and thin body," Barbara Hanna "The
symbolism of animals."
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